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The Top Ranked Heavyweight MMA Fighters of the 2000s
Notes: Fighters are listed only with the weight class they are most associated with this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Fedor Emelianenko | 1 |
| 2 | Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira | 2 |
| 3 | Josh Barnett | 9 |
| 4 | Mirko Filipovic | 13 |
| 5 | Tim Sylvia | 19 |
| 6 | Mark Coleman | 20 |
| 7 | Mark Hunt | 21 |
| 8 | Frank Mir | 22 |
| 9 | Andrei Arlovski | 28 |
| 10 | Ricco Rodriguez | 33 |
| 11 | Paul Buentello | 38 |
| 12 | Pedro Rizzo | 45 |
| 13 | Semmy Schilt | 50 |
| 14 | Heath Herring | 60 |
| 15 | Tsuyoshi Kosaka | 64 |
| 16 | Gabriel Gonzaga | 68 |
| 17 | Bobby Hoffman | 69 |
| 18 | Brock Lesnar | 70 |
| 19 | Ron Waterman | 73 |
| 20 | Jeremy Horn | 76 |
| 21 | Gary Goodridge | 77 |
| 22 | Kazuo Takahashi | 81 |
| 23 | Fabricio Werdum | 89 |
| 24 | Ian Freeman | 90 |
| 25 | Kiyoshi Tamura | 94 |
| 26 | Igor Vovchanchyn | 104 |
| 27 | Kazuhiro Nakamura | 108 |
| 28 | Gan McGee | 111 |
| 29 | Gilbert Yvel | 122 |
| 30 | Sergei Kharitonov | 127 |
| 31 | Assuerio Silva | 129 |
| 32 | Justin Eilers | 148 |
| 33 | Shunsuke Inoue | 151 |
| 34 | Kazuyuki Fujita | 152 |
| 35 | Junior dos Santos | 153 |
| 36 | Mario Sperry | 155 |
| 37 | Osami Shibuya | 156 |
| 38 | Ibragim Magomedov | 160 |
| 39 | Aleksander Emelianenko | 167 |
| 40 | Jeff Monson | 171 |
| 41 | Brian Sesma | 182 |
| 42 | Chance Williams | 183 |
| 43 | Dan Bobish | 184 |
| 44 | Kestutis Arbocius | 192 |
| 45 | Lloyd Marshbanks | 193 |
| 46 | Manny Rodriguez | 196 |
| 47 | Neil Cooke | 201 |
| 48 | Yusuke Kawaguchi | 212 |
| 49 | Brandon Vera | 216 |
| 50 | Antonio Silva | 217 |
| 51 | Antoine Jaoude | 223 |
| 52 | Baru Harn | 226 |
| 53 | Bo Cantrell | 227 |
| 54 | Fabiano Scherner | 250 |
| 55 | Houssain Oushani | 262 |
| 56 | Ioka Tianuu | 264 |
| 57 | James Nevarez | 266 |
| 58 | Jason Godsey | 269 |
| 59 | Jerry Davis | 275 |
| 60 | Jerry Vrbanovic | 277 |
| 61 | Joey Beltran | 280 |
| 62 | Jonathan Ivey | 282 |
| 63 | Kauai Kupihea | 287 |
| 64 | Lance King | 301 |
| 65 | Lavar Johnson | 302 |
| 66 | Rafael Carino | 318 |
| 67 | Roque Martinez | 322 |
| 68 | Ryan Robinson | 324 |
| 69 | Sal Farnetti | 325 |
| 70 | Seigo Mizuguchi | 330 |
| 71 | Shamoji Fujii | 333 |
| 72 | Tatsuya Mizuno | 339 |
| 73 | Tyler East | 344 |
| 74 | Vince Lucero | 347 |
| 75 | Wes Combs | 349 |
| 76 | Magomedkhan Gamzatkhanov | 353 |
| 77 | Hiromitsu Kanehara | 365 |
| 78 | Ken Shamrock | 367 |
| 79 | Bob Schrijber | 373 |
| 80 | Mike Kyle | 376 |
| 81 | Bob Stines | 377 |
| 82 | Valentijn Overeem | 378 |
| 83 | Ebenezer Fontes Braga | 380 |
| 84 | Cheick Kongo | 385 |
| 85 | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | 408 |
| 86 | Omar Bouiche | 415 |
| 87 | Chris Haseman | 416 |
| 88 | Eric Pele | 417 |
| 89 | Travis Wiuff | 422 |
| 90 | Dan Severn | 432 |
| 91 | Mikhail Avetisyan | 434 |
| 92 | Karimula Barkalaev | 436 |
| 93 | Roy Nelson | 437 |
| 94 | Jimmy Ambriz | 440 |
| 95 | Pete Williams | 459 |
| 96 | Ben Rothwell | 467 |
| 97 | Tsuyoshi Ozawa | 474 |
| 98 | Mark Kerr | 493 |
| 99 | Jason DeLucia | 511 |
| 100 | Bob Sapp | 514 |
| 101 | Maurice Smith | 520 |
| 102 | Don Frye | 522 |
| 103 | Marcio Cruz | 525 |
| 104 | Murad Chunkaiev | 527 |
| 105 | Ryushi Yanagisawa | 536 |
| 106 | Rodney Glunder | 552 |
| 107 | Tra Telligman | 555 |
| 108 | Rokas Stambrauskas | 559 |
| 109 | Tim Lajcik | 561 |
| 110 | Mike Van Arsdale | 583 |
| 111 | Jonathan Wiezorek | 591 |
| 112 | James Thompson | 592 |
| 113 | Katsuhisa Fujii | 595 |
| 114 | Cain Velasquez | 597 |
| 115 | Travis Fulton | 599 |
| 116 | Wesley Correira | 600 |
| 117 | Homer Moore | 601 |
| 118 | Antoni Hardonk | 615 |
| 119 | Nobuhiko Takada | 617 |
| 120 | Roman Zentsov | 633 |
| 121 | Islam Dadalov | 634 |
| 122 | Aaron Brink | 641 |
| 123 | Brad Imes | 644 |
| 124 | Eun-Soo Lee | 647 |
| 125 | Brett Rogers | 651 |
| 126 | Roger Gracie | 655 |
| 127 | Shane Carwin | 656 |
| 128 | Rene Rooze | 660 |
| 129 | Carlos Barreto | 665 |
| 130 | Marcelo Dantas | 671 |
| 131 | Kimo Leopoldo | 678 |
| 132 | Atte Backman | 687 |
| 133 | Anthony Ruiz | 688 |
| 134 | Greg Wikan | 750 |
| 135 | Jake O'Brien | 761 |
| 136 | Steve Conkel | 768 |
| 137 | Yoshihiro Nakao | 772 |
| 138 | Branden Lee Hinkle | 773 |
| 139 | Dan Christison | 789 |
| 140 | Chris Tuchscherer | 797 |
| 141 | Ryan Gracie | 808 |
| 142 | Alexey Oleynik | 815 |
| 143 | Reese Andy | 820 |
| 144 | Seth Petruzelli | 824 |
| 145 | Mike Russow | 832 |
| 146 | Tengiz Tedoradze | 837 |
| 147 | Dave Herman | 839 |
| 148 | Miodrag Petkovic | 840 |
| 149 | John Olav Einemo | 844 |
| 150 | Mu-Bae Choi | 869 |
| 151 | Mario Rinaldi | 875 |
| 152 | Dave Dalgliesh | 878 |
| 153 | Justin McCully | 882 |
| 154 | Michal Kita | 883 |
| 155 | Kevin Jordan | 900 |
| 156 | Stefan Struve | 908 |
| 157 | Neil Grove | 916 |
| 158 | Christian M'Pumbu | 918 |
| 159 | Todd Duffee | 923 |
| 160 | Wade Shipp | 924 |
| 161 | Sergey Kaznovsky | 925 |
| 162 | Martin Thompson | 934 |
| 163 | Pawel Nastula | 937 |
| 164 | Damian Grabowski | 938 |
| 165 | Eddie Sanchez | 939 |
| 166 | Akhmed Sultanov | 941 |
| 167 | Tim Hague | 949 |
| 168 | Yang Dongi | 950 |
| 169 | Josh Hendricks | 952 |
| 170 | Pat Barry | 953 |
| 171 | Jessie Gibbs | 954 |
| 172 | Rogent Lloret | 955 |
| 173 | Sang-Soo Lee | 956 |
| 174 | Konstantyn Stryzhak | 957 |
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